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Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by skydhash »

ykonstant wrote: post #40
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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That's too much generalization. I like skeuomorphic GUI with proper shadows, separators, color gradients, 2.5D borders, menus, etc. Nobody is offering those these days, so I gravitated towards TUI; I also have a lot of nostalgia for the DOS days, and although terminal emulation is worse than a proper command line, I make do.

I came on macOS on Mojave, but have seen Maverick and Lion screenshots and I've used iOS 6 as well. Flat UI can be prettier, but the physicality of skeuomorphic design is better for interaction. There was something more when interacting with Winamp instead of the current batch of audio players we have today. Win7 was great.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by night_cat »

terminaltrove wrote: post #46

superfile looks great, we have this listed on the trove (1) for other package managers, we love what's been done recently in the terminal / tui space. I encourage also supporting the author as well on their ko-fi page for a new laptop. (2) 1. https://terminaltrove.com/superfile/ 2. https://ko-fi.com/night_cat

Thanks you so much,I really like terminal trove!

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by Barrin92 »

jiehong wrote: post #77
ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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GUIs aren’t composable with other tools easily. Like, you can pipe CLIs together, and some TUIs accept a command and exit, allowing you to chain things together. On the web, your best bet might be playwright, but that’s about it. Imagine having GTK and QT applications able to be chained and exit automatically. On MacOS/iOS it’s not much better, even if Apple Shortcuts can feel ok sometimes, assuming the devs thought…

>GUIs aren’t composable with other tools easily.

None of the tools on display here are composable either, in fact almost all modern TUIs are literally indistinguishable from GUIs, using the same widgets and user paradigms you'd find in a desktop app, but reimplemented on top a text rendering engine, they're not CLI tools.

It's basically the same thing we did on the web where webapps sort of pretend that they're not sitting on a text protocol but at least there it's out of necessity. On top of a functioning graphic stack there's no point for TUIs to exist.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by godelski »

srwest wrote: post #28

If didn't read the docs, noticed hkjl moved around, and accidentally deleted 3 folders with ctrl+d seeing if I could scroll down faster. Scary defaults if you have Vim muscle memory.

It really weirds me out how many people use a sprinkling of vim keybindings but don't use more. Like how many vim users don't know (esc) or contextual completion like (:help ins-completion). I see so many people use plugins for things that already exist in vim but people never discuss.

One that bites me a lot is when a vim keybinding is implemented, has insert mode, and they don't also rebind . Go from trying to delete a word (backwards) but end up losing a whole session. It's such muscle memory I sometimes do it on webpages, but maybe that one is a feature instead of a bug lol

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by night_cat »

srwest wrote: post #28

If didn't read the docs, noticed hkjl moved around, and accidentally deleted 3 folders with ctrl+d seeing if I could scroll down faster. Scary defaults if you have Vim muscle memory.

Btw, this is not actually deleted, but put in the trash can.

But it seems that this hotkey is not good for many people. It may be changed in the next version. Thanks for your feedback.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by ghostly_s »

night_cat wrote: post #85
srwest wrote: post #28

If didn't read the docs, noticed hkjl moved around, and accidentally deleted 3 folders with ctrl+d seeing if I could scroll down faster. Scary defaults if you have Vim muscle memory.

Btw, this is not actually deleted, but put in the trash can. But it seems that this hotkey is not good for many people. It may be changed in the next version. Thanks for your feedback.

I use a number of apps where ctrl-d is a common non-destructive shortcut, and can't recall ever encountering one where it was used for delete.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by luqtas »

srwest wrote: post #28

If didn't read the docs, noticed hkjl moved around, and accidentally deleted 3 folders with ctrl+d seeing if I could scroll down faster. Scary defaults if you have Vim muscle memory.

what's even the point of downloading something so banal & not read the docs; comment at the post WITH the warning of it not complaining with Vim shortcuts when it's clear that Emacs is ballparks better? /s

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by techjamie »

ThrowawayTestr wrote: post #31
schindlabua wrote: post #13

Love all the terminal tooling that's come out in recent years. I'm this close to chrome and rofi being the only gui I'm using on my work machine. This looks great!

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What doix said, but also if I tailor my workflow in the terminal, I can toss the same applications and configs onto my servers and use them the same way without installing a window manager and VNC onto it.

Re: Superfile – A fancy, pretty terminal file manager

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Post by anigbrowl » 

  brew install superfile
  (ok)
  superfile
  (not found)
  find superfile
  (not sound)
  cd /usr/local/Cellar/superfile/1.1.2/bin
  ls
  spf
This is mentioned in the tutorial but it's probably worth mentioning in the install section to save people 5-10 minutes of confusion. Once I found the filename I loved it.
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